Movies that are better than the books

Die Hard

Jurassic Park

Raconteuse wrote: »

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, imo.

The book is usually better but film and TV are different mediums that can do things the written word can't.

The metaphor of the book is something transcendent. I agree. Such a friendship could never have taken place though. And its likely the German boy would have been a member of the Hitler youth (in fact he would have had to have been) and well indoctrinated with antisemitism. Plus security in camps was high. But its more likely the German kid would have hated him anyway.

But both the book and the film show huge chunks of basic understanding about the time period and runs the risk of misinforming people.

But I think people realize it's as realistic as Disney.

Its a fable. Fables need not be true or accurate. But it is important they not be misleading.



Its not really a moral authority as narration.

There is no way a child that age in a camp would be so sheltered from what was happening. Most children (nearly all female children) were gassed straight off. If he were a real child he would have known any siblings were dead.

It makes concentrations camps look like holiday camps.


I understand people are not going to think its realistic or accurate etc. Or that it ever could have happened. Or at least not adults anyway.

Having said that I do like the film though. But I also hate it even loath it.


The book trivializes the conditions in and around the death camps and perpetuates the "myth'' that those adults not directly involved can claim innocence.

Its not a book about the holocaust.

The Life of Brian.

Trainspotting maybe. I saw the film first so maybe that sways me. Book is class though!

Schindlers List

The Two Towers

Feisar wrote: »

Trainspotting maybe. I saw the film first so maybe that sways me. Book is class though!

Both are equally brilliant..One of the few books that I actually laughed out loud reading.
It's written in a Scottish accent.After a few pages you get used to it though.

Kerry25x wrote: »

Came here to say the same. Movie was hugely better than the book.

I think I read before that even Chuck Palahniuk thought the movie was better too.

The Jack Reacher series, the films are bog standard hollywood lone hero fare but the books are written in such a bizzare style I couldn't even finish a paragraph. They read like a picture book for a 5 year old, millions of short factual sentences strung together.

A randomly selected passage:

The Union Square subway station is a major hub. It has an entrance hall as big as an underground plaza. Multiple entrances, multiple exits, multiple lines, multiple tracks. Stairs, booths, long rows of turnstiles. Plus long banks of machines for refreshing Metrocards, or buying new ones. I used cash and bought a new card. I fed two twenty-dollar bills edge-first into the slot and was rewarded with twenty rides plus three free as a bonus. I collected my card and turned around and moved away. It was close to six o’clock in the morning. The station was filling up with people. The work day was starting. I passed a newsstand. It had a thousand different magazines. And squat bales of fresh tabloids ready for sale. Thick papers, piled high. Two separate titles. Both headlines were huge.

How the fuq are these books bestsellers?

Debbie does Dallas